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He has shown he has quality in depth as a driver and his maturity.

"He has proved everyone wrong by going to McLaren. He is someone who seems to be relishing having made the right decision and being in the right place, against everyone else's better judgment. McLaren need someone like Jenson who has got a laid-back but seriously competitive and well-balanced attitude. "I think he has added something to McLaren. His career really was almost derailed in the first couple of seasons in F1.

"I have been surprised by Jenson and the way he has handled it at McLaren," he said. But perhaps Jenson is a little bit more opportunistic, and slightly more mature and realistic about things."īutton's switch to McLaren has impressed Hill. "I think that is what you would expect from a competitor. "Lewis has got the mind-set of a driver who sees the normal state of affairs as him being first and the rest being second, which is great," he said. Hill was speaking at the famous circuit which launched the Formula One world championship 60 years ago and will stage the British grand prix for the next 17 years following a £5m refit. I think it would be wrong to assume either would be that easy but I think Jenson has perhaps got the slightly more relaxed approach." "He will absorb more as a competitor and maintain his equilibrium perhaps better than Lewis. "I wouldn't be surprised if Jenson won the championship again," he said.

When it came to Button, Hill had no reservations. Whether Lewis will mature or not … he is bound to be maturing all the time but whether he learns to be circumspect when he needs to be, I don't know if that is his style. "He is still very young and learning but his approach is more impetuous, which works sometimes and doesn't at others.

"I think Lewis has got a little bit more to learn tactically than Jenson," he said of the McLaren team-mates.